Hind Awwad, national coordinator of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, tells Electronic Intifada: It took the South African BDS campaign 25 years to achieve what we achieved in five years. That is what South Africans and anti-apartheid activists tell us. And we see [new tactics] of BDS activities by the young generation…
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Let the churches argue over Palestine
A seemingly principled stand on an issue that is generating outrage in ways the corporate media seem unwilling to represent: America’s largest Presbyterian denomination is preparing for a contentious General Assembly next month as delegates will be asked to consider approving a strongly worded report that calls on the U.S. to stop sending billions of…
This is what real Palestinians look like
Daily life in Gaza through evocative photos in the New York Times online.
Inciting race hatred on Murdoch money
A helpful reminder of the kind of hatred that regularly appears in the pages of a leading Murdoch publication. Alan Howe is a senior figure in Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper who loves to demean Arabs and praise Israel (free trips to the Jewish state thanks to the Zionist lobby have certainly helped him hone his…
Red Cross calls the Gaza blockade illegal
Israel may be launching a far from independent investigation into the Gaza flotilla massacre but the real issue remains the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The International Red Cross has released a damning report: The serious incidents that took place on 31 May between Israeli forces and activists on a flotilla heading for Gaza once again…
Call JNF by its rightful name (ie. not charity)
Not before time and a campaign that should only grow in years to come: The JNF came under renewed attack this week from anti-Zionists calling for the removal of its charitable status. Veteran activist Uri Davis – author of Israel: An Apartheid State – addressed a “Stop the JNF” meeting organised by the International Jewish…
How to murder the peace activists in Israel
Just another typical day in the state of Israel: Speaking of signs and the commandos, I’ve seen quite a few large banners along the highway that read: “Commando Soldiers, Israel is proud of you!” Public rage against opposing views has reached a boiling point. Last week on my way to a demonstration protesting Israeli action…
Remember that Abbas is against lifting the siege on Gaza
Some of the latest news about the Gaza flotilla massacre wash-up is here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. I’m currently on the road with only minimal access to the web. Stay tuned.
Riyadh loves a good Zionist love-in
Good to see that one of the key Arab nations, like Egypt, is happy to lie down with a rapacious Jewish state: Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal. In the week that the…
Is the Aussie Zionist lobby in trouble?
One of Australia’s foremost academics, Scott Burchill, senses a change in Australian public opinion over Israel. The Zionist lobby will have noticed. As will the lobby’s closest backers (such support is always helped by regular free trips to Israel and a constant stream of press releases). Over to Burchill in an online exclusive: Sometimes government…